Commission

I have begun a new series of miniature wave / beach paintings for an exciting give away!

With the first done as a warm up birthday gift for a friend, it was perfect to get me in the mood for the others! I should have the 4 mini paintings completed in about a months, all ready for a fun give away on my Facebook and Instagram.

Stay tuned for more info and updates on the latest editions to this series of four paintings.

Here’s what I’ve completed so far – ideas for titles are welcome!

The first image is the birthday gift, just to warm things up! ” Stormy bay”

I’ve been having some great fun creating a few new pieces which I’m pleased to say turned out so awesome !

Using Oils on this piece was a bit of a head spin! Normally painting in acrylics, I decided to commit fully to using oils this time, and was so glad that I did. The results were brilliant – as you can see below!

Here it is titled “The glass tunnel” was a commission for a lovely friends birthday. Roughly 6 feet long, it looked fantastic once hung – check it out!!

It has been a busy couple of months. With a wonderful holiday to the United States and Canada in September, I then came back to a couple of commissions to start cracking on!

The first one kept me very busy with a request for a pencil drawing of a lovely friend who just happens to have the most amazing fit body for a pregnant lady, asked me to sketch her with baby bump included.

She works very very hard at keeping her body looking so sleek, but of course competing in a beauty pageant whilst pregnant probably was a good reason to keep on top of it all.

This is the latest commission completed for a wonderfully vibrant lady, who has had a rough beginning to 2014.

She wanted something bold, colourful with hearts to lift her up and out of the blues. Her favourite colour is red, and the lotus image that features quite heavily is a beautiful tattoo she has on her wrist.

She tells me she loves it, and I’m looking forward to seeing a photo of it hanging in her home soon!!

Having a wonderful time sketching from THE cutest toddler photos ever!

My Nephew and Niece who are having a baby in October, wanted a special portrait for the baby’s nursery. Inspiration has never been easier with the photos they’ve supplied ! I’ve started a few initial pencil sketches, and I’ll be painting it onto a canvas eventually. I’d really like to put them both into the one painting … along with some very cute extra’s….!

I hope it all comes together as perfect as I have envisaged the final piece in my minds eye! How adorable outta 10 are these baby photos below!! <3 <3

Just a fun commission I did recently..! When someone at work asked me to paint/draw T2, I was like, HUH??!! Especially as it was a girlfriend… -weird loOk- !

But to be honest, I had tonnes of fun painting this and surprisingly enough, found painting Arnie quite easy! I’m a huge Arnie fan, so I guess all those hours of watching his many movies have finally paid off! – Hasta La Vista BEH BEH!!

Author and friend Shirley Marr asked for some artwork, depicting her characters from her most recent published book – “Fury”. For exchange of the book itself I agreed… I figured that was a great trade… the story is excellent. My daughter (15yrs) also read it and enjoyed also.

I asked my daughter and her two girlfriends to model for the painting that I created. I really needed some snooty attituded posing.. and they sure did come through.

I must admit that I’ve been having a few problems of late getting my head into the right space to create, this and a few other paintings. Painters block or something? It happens I guess. But hey, I have finished and I do quite like the finished product.

Was lucky enough to see the printed artwork of the Christmas Bush banner I completed a couple of weeks ago. It will be going up on a road near where I live. (North Lake Rd, Bibra Lake) It looks awesome huge.. thumbs up all the way!!

So if you live locally or ever drive along that road, please keep your peepers open for it… I can’t wait to see how it looks when it’s finally in place.